Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet

Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Tatreez Online: The Transformation of a Palestinian Tradition
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies.
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 30 credits / 45 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Traditional Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) played an important role as a form of indigenous language in Palestinian culture before the Nakba, the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. After the exile of the Palestinian population and through the subsequent conflicts and occupation in the decades since the Nakba, tatreez has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance, represented in art and dress as a way to demonstrate the history of the Palestinian people, their attachment to the land of Palestine, and their continued struggle for justice. Existing research on Palestinian tatreez examines the use of embroidery during various time periods, either the historical development of motifs and regional patterns or post-1948 changes, for example its rise as an economic tool in the mid-twentieth century within Palestinian refugee camps and its development as a political emblem inside Palestine during the First Intifada in the 1980s. Separately, there is research on the importance of online platforms for Palestinians both within the Palestinian territory and the diaspora. This thesis bridges existing research on the role of tatreez for Palestinians and the online diaspora dimension to discuss the impact of new technologies on the practice of tatreez. The thesis argues that sharing tatreez via online platforms allows for an expansion of the traditional usage of tatreez as a form of collective and individual expression and continues the post-1948 practice of presenting political and artistic visions via embroidery.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 60
Keywords [en]
embroidery, Palestine, tatreez, Internet, social media, diaspora
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185537OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-185537DiVA, id: diva2:1470614
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2020-10-05 Created: 2020-09-25 Last updated: 2020-10-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

Tatreez Online: The Transformation of a Palestinian Tradition(7103 kB)7312 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 7103 kBChecksum SHA-512
c077f867a094dac44793ae0454be7207675abff3bd4903e3349e932cc58ee9bed32ad6a7937017836ea1247ba85542927ad90df99637948aa2e0acfa96f0da08
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 7318 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 5688 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf